Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
~ Frédéric Bastiat

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There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.
~ Frédéric Bastiat

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Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.
~ Frédéric Bastiat

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It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
~ Frédéric Bastiat

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At whatever point on the scientific horizon I begin my researches, I invariably reach this one conclusion: The solution to the problems of human relationships is to be found in liberty.
~ Frédéric Bastiat

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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
~ Frédéric Bastiat

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The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.
~ Frédéric Bastiat

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